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Post# 89830 10/20/2005 at 06:31 (6,763 days old) by jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)
Checkrate/Likes Boy today that would be a lawsuit waiting to happen, drying with no tumbling. I can see a nitwit putting in a load of spandex on no tumble and poof "dryerfyre" everywhere. It looks like a neat feature to have especially for sneakers so they don't bang around for an hour. How many women do you think actually used the hair dryer??

Post# 89833 , Reply# 1 10/20/2005 at 07:42 (6,763 days old) by nurdlinger (Tucson AZ)
Checkrate/Likes *Norge logo* Near the bottom of the photo is a Norge logo. At the right of the logo are the letters "BW". Do these stand for Borg-Warner? I know nothing about the history of Norge in the USA.

Post# 89840 , Reply# 2 10/20/2005 at 08:40 (6,763 days old) by jasonl (Cookeville, TN)
Checkrate/Likes *Hair dryer* Only those with a death wish. Carbon monoxide.

Post# 89850 , Reply# 3 10/20/2005 at 09:32 (6,763 days old) by tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)
Checkrate/Likes The pair in the POD are far more deluxe than the dryer I picked up last week, but I doubt that the dryer in the picture, for all of its buttons had more than two heat input levels with one operating thermostat and probably no auto-dry cycle; that was a couple of years in the future for Norge dryers, although they did make a type of "Soft-Heat" auto-dry for a Wards Her Majesty gas dryer we have. It ran along at full tilt and at the higher BTU input until the first operating thermostat was satisfied, then cut the burner to the low input and, when the second thermostat was satisfied, the heat turned off and the cycle went through cool down and shut off. Jon, actually Spandex should not be dried with heat. Why would you think someone would use the no tumble feature for it? I guess it's lucky that this dryer came out when people still approached doing laundry with a bit of knowledge. Even if the Spandex were dried on low heat and no tumble without the rack, the heat input was low enough that, with the gale force wind that blew through the machine, the Spandex should not be in danger of burning. You notice that this dryer had the Stop 'N DRY handle at the top of the drum opening. Above that is the embossed aluminum piece was the reflector for the drum light. My cheaper dryer has a short "T" shaped knob behind the flop down lint door at the base that is turned all the way one way to let the drum tumble and the opposite way to stop tumbling. I don't know if we have mentioned here that these early Norge dryers had the heat source run the width of the drum. The gas burner or electric element ran across the back of the machine with a slot in front of it where the heat was sucked into the fan and blown through the 3 ducts in the back of the drum. It was for even heat input as opposed to heating elements positioned like in a Filtrator. At first the drilled port cast iron burner had the holes on top so you could see the little flames on top of the burner bend toward the fan. Then they changed the burner so that the holes faced down to help eliminate the problem of lint clogging the holes. Finally, in this style dryer, they went to a gun-type burner like on other gas dryers. It pointed down slightly instead of firing straight across.

Post# 89872 , Reply# 4 10/20/2005 at 12:06 (6,763 days old) by cleanteamofny ((Monroe, New York)
Checkrate/Likes Oh man!!!! I just looked at the POD and I thought about the same thing that Jasonl just noted. I like to know how woman and children passed out during the hair drying cycle!?!? Poof and it was done!!!! lol

Post# 89879 , Reply# 5 10/20/2005 at 12:58 (6,763 days old) by bearpeter ()
Checkrate/Likes *... as an ex hairdresser!* I would have used it!!! Would have saved me packing my old Lady Ronson Hood dryer for that "Client"!!! .... and Spandex??? who apart from drag queens wears that nowadays????

Post# 89896 , Reply# 6 10/20/2005 at 16:54 (6,762 days old) by bostonwash ()
Checkrate/Likes *the hair dryer..* I was thinking that too. It would be impractical to make a gas hair dryer. Though I wouldn't doubt that at some point someone tried it. and yeah instant death. I never realized how sadistic hair treatments were at the beginning of last century. One example,women were allowing themselves to have several hundred 120volt wires ,which hung from the ceiling, clamped to their hair folicles and be electrified in order to get it to curl. I wouldn't have believed it until I saw a video. Sometimes people would die. Sometimes the hair would smoke and start on fire. OMG And don't forget bee- hives in the 60s and 70s. My god, what women did to be "acceptable". I wonder if this was just yet another American "fashion concept".

Post# 89913 , Reply# 7 10/20/2005 at 20:19 (6,762 days old) by tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)
Checkrate/Likes *carbon monoxide* Actually, you only get CO when you do not have enough oxygen for the combustion. I would think that the dryer operating in a normal installation, and with that huge fan blowing, you would have plenty of oxygen for the burner. Not all of the air came out through the bonnet; some was still vented outside.

Post# 89915 , Reply# 8 10/20/2005 at 20:33 (6,762 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY)
Checkrate/Likes OK OK so you'd get carbon-dioxide, still not too healthy for a human to breathe in. Plants likek it though!

Post# 89919 , Reply# 9 10/20/2005 at 21:25 (6,762 days old) by laundromat (Hilo, Hawaii)
Checkrate/Likes BW Yes Norge was originaly owned by Borg-Warner

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